Harukoi – Serizawa Yuika

Though it’s been several years since you last saw each other, Yuika has always been a good friend of yours, and she really helps you settle in and adjust to live at St. Francesca Kind and gentle, Yuika is always there with a smile and a well-meaning (yet frequently wrong) word. When your feeling down because Umi just said something mean, she’s the one who’s there to pat your head and offer comfort.

Despite her book smarts, Yuika tends to be a bit slow, but she makes up for it with diligence and hard work. She also loves to cook and she’s very good at it, though her cooking can be… interesting… when she decides to be creative.

Though the two of you are certainly very close, sometimes being too close can be its own problem when it comes to love. Yuika might always there to greet you with a smile… but what’s behind it? Friendship? Love? Or something else entirely?

Serizawa Yuika is voiced by Fujino Ran, a voice actress who, between her other stage names, has voiced over 170 different eroge characters. In the past, she’s played such roles as Fuyou Kaede in Shuffle!, Riannon in Tears to Tiara, Kuonji Miu in Kimi ga Aruji de, Ore ga Shitsuji de, Hinari in Shin Koihime Musou, Ohtori Naru in Oretachi ni Tsubasa ha Nai, and Mayuzumi Yukie and Matsukaze in Maji de Watashi ni Koi Shinasai. In anime, she’s also voiced Kaori Mana in Ookamikakushi, Menace in Queen’s Blade, Kobushi Abiru in Sayonara Zetsubou Sensei, and Asahina Mikuru in The Melancholoy of Suzumiya Haruhi.

I grow more hopeful every time one of these character introductions appears and it isn’t the chick with the huge nose. I’m hoping the characters are being introduced based on how big of a role they play in the game.